Impression Management

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

We all in some way care about what other people think of us. At our core we all have a fear of saying something dumb or embarrassing ourselves somehow. One sociological theory says that our effort to prevent those embarrassments is the basis of society.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:05.6	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio.
0:15.2	Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck and Jerry's here too,
0:19.5	and we're putting on our best faces in this episode of stuff you should know, right?
0:26.2	Our front stage self.
0:27.6	Yeah.
0:28.5	And speaking of stage, Chuck, I have a great intro to this.
0:32.0	I believe it was Rush who first said, all the world's a stage.
0:36.9	Yeah.
0:37.4	And the men and women on it are merely players or something like that.
0:41.2	Yeah.
0:41.9	Performers and portrayers.
0:43.3	Yeah.
0:43.9	Each and other's audience.
0:45.4	Is that what he says?
0:46.5	I never knew.
0:47.3	And I've never bothered to look up the lyrics.
0:49.4	Because there's definitely some words in there.
0:50.8	I'm like, I don't know what Getty Lee just said.
0:53.3	Yeah. I think, I'm pretty
0:55.0	sure that's right. It's a great, great song, Lime Light, very well written. Very original stuff. Yeah.
1:01.8	So we're talking about impression management today, right? Yes, sir. And what do you think about it?
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